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 "title": "Defendants prosecuted, convicted and sentenced, England and Wales",
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  "People proceeded against, convicted and sentenced, as Table Q1.1 gives them, each year to the month the release names. A conviction or sentence can follow a prosecution in an earlier year, so the figures are not a conviction rate, as the Ministry of Justice warns."
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